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Now this is actually a good idea, unlike 99% of the multimedia crap.

@IOI These are just the replacement for the Spider-Man spin-offs that got canned. Sony really want to chase trends from a couple years back.

So it’s a new Starship Troopers.

Really funny to announce essentially the blandest movie possible straight after the Golden Globes, where movies that actually said something were acknowledged. That being said, Anora was snubbed.

Christ alive, was confused for a second before I realised you were referring to Trent Reznor by a stupid roundabout way.

They don’t want you to get one of these. Oh what a shame… guess you’ll just have to pay Sony’s prices through their own store.

@Overmind My younger brother’s doing History because these sorts of games are what he grew up on. Most of the people on his course are either into Civ or Paradox games.

Ximming is a bit of a problem once you start getting to higher ranks on console.

Civ and Paradox games are pretty much the biggest reason why anybody picks History at uni these days. Sure, you can attribute some of the alt-right nonsense spreading among teens to the way that the Crusades are portrayed in Crusader Kings II but it’s always good to learn more about history, especially with the world repeating the mistakes of the Holocaust.

This site should just rebrand to a Gacha site.

But this game isn’t on PS5…?

@Sweet Ubisoft phased out PunkBuster after Black Flag. So kernel-based anti-cheat is unlikely especially with the multiplayer element being removed by the time Origins came out. They’ve also already fixed the Avatar game because it still has active maintenance devs, whereas this is an older game and development has ceased. Honestly, you writing a whole thing to say that it’s all Ubi’s fault and such sort of just reinforces my point that they’ve been getting an unfair extra level of hate that other devs avoid.

I could never really get into it as much as my favourite Harvest Moon or Rune Factory games but it’s definitely a labour of love.

@wildcat_kickz You could say that about literally anything though. FPS games can be good or bad, they have to be a well-made game to be good. Games with pigs can be good or bad, even though I like pigs. The entire crux of the issue with what this guy is saying is that it’s drawing a correlation between diversity and quality, which hasn’t been true for a single game I can think of. It’s just utterly pointless to even talk about, he’s giving airtime to the very worst dregs of gamers for no reason. It goes without saying that no dev would want to add elements to a game unless they were a certain quality so what it boils down to is ‘do you instantly jump towards questioning the motivations of the writers or use of DEI practices if there are minorities present, and you don’t if it’s straight white male characters’. Because that’s basically just the textbook definition of bigotry. If you don’t ask yourself if straight white male characters have been shoehorned into a narrative for the sake of agenda then that implies a certain level of bias. Not that it’s always a conscious thing, lots of people are biased in their own way but society across the world being far more diverse than before means that we all have to make an effort to address our own biases.

This isn’t even Ubisoft’s fault. Sad to see a dev being targeted like this, they might have their faults but the level of vitriol being directed at them feels very much agenda-driven.

The game is good but the community are killing it. Hopefully new healers and tanks reduces the ridiculous amount of DPS instalocks who ruin matches.

@wildcat_kickz I highly recommend the book Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann. It’s easy to sit there and say there wouldn’t be black people in Bohemia in the 15th Century but the reality is that there absolutely could have been, given the amount of interesting stories about Africans who made their way to the English court, which implies a higher number of uninteresting people of similar backgrounds across much less interesting courts across Europe. History is written by certain people, our understanding of countless historical periods has shifted over the years due to historians being influenced by common morality of the time, Sparta being a prime example of having its homosexuality excised in favour of them being macho men. The point being, who’s to say that your understanding of historical accuracy is any more informed than the writers of these games? Without new writers, with something new to say, the entire medium becomes tired. This awful, anti-innovation culture is killing the industry, people are so desperate to hold onto their bigotry that they’re cannibalising originality.

@Herculean Yeah, the guy “may be a lot of things, but at least he has damn good video game taste”

Should we be expecting articles about Osama Bin Laden’s gaming and anime tastes?

I cannot think of a single game ever that has suffered in a single way due to diversity or inclusion.

Herman really is just stupid lol.

I’m in Diamond and the game is all of a sudden basically unplayable because of toxicity. Genuinely disheartening how vitriolic it gets. Hero bans make the gameplay slightly more interesting but the increase in toxicity ruins it.

Above Balatro. The people lost.

@Strikke Is it not a bit ironic to whine about it being sheep hating blockchain stuff when a bunch of morons literally just lost money after a rugpull by the Hawk Tuah girl of all people. If anything, blockchain and crypto nonsense relies on sheep to be worth more than £0.

Being third party exclusive is beyond stupid in this day and age. I get they want to make PC ports of games some big announcement as if they’re advertising new DLC at the Game Awards or whatever but just stick your game on as many platforms that are technically possible, it’s just doing your game a disservice.

Robbed. Sh*ts all over every bloated modern RPG by having a specific design manifesto that it carries out to an extremely high degree.

@LikelySatan That trailer alone is why I play the Trails games in Japanese. Not much better mind, but at least not offensively dreadful.

Forgot about this one! Probably rubbish, let’s be real.

I love wonky Oblivion but it’s definitely the black sheep compared to Morrowind and Skyrim. I also question how true this is considering the Creation Engine exists. Also poor Skyblivion if this is true!

@N0CYmr0k I have no idea what you’re talking about.

@N0CYmr0k I haven’t played Stalker 2 yet but I played the Metro games in Russian. Depends how good the dubs are in most cases but some games feel far better in the original language. I wouldn’t play Witcher 3 in Polish though so it’s a case by case basis.

What a day. Sammy being an AI shill and tabloid level articles. Fun times.

I cannot imagine playing these in English. Possibly if your jumping on point was 7, that’s it. Fun to see Señor Joe here though, they say that all men are created equal.

@Ralizah The romance for me is far more acceptable when you see them later on in the series, as they’re older and obviously not related, plus you learn far more about the circumstances leading to Joshua being taken in. When they’re skirting around each other it’s a bit weird but it’s one of the few romances in the series actually confirmed, probably because surprisingly enough the female protagonist doesn’t get a harem but the male protagonists do, making canon a bitch. Olivier is ridiculous but there are several characters in his archetype who push things a million times further in a way that’s genuinely hard to read. I’d appreciate them either knocking the vague bisexuality in the head or just outright confirming it though, that nonsense is rife in Japanese media, especially tied to ‘flirty’ characters.

And Evo on the Vita, where I played Sky first, had like 8x speed up so I never found the gameplay very slow or boring. Auto battle worked well too for grinding. I honestly think it’s one of the better designed RPGs of its day, with AP and CP being two separate resources to perform spells or skills. My only gripe is late game bosses having insane amounts of HP and Sky 1 and 2 don’t really allow you to break it the way 3rd and the later games do. Evasion tanks are incredibly broken in almost every game, just stack evasion and get the quartz that has critical hits on counters, makes a lot of fights much easier.

The pointless PS5 versions of Cold Steel 3 and 4 were clearly just the beginning!

Evo was already a great remake, if this is written anything like Cold Steel 4 then it’ll be borderline unplayable.

@Brundleflies21 They’d hit the jackpot thinking they won thousands but it’s actually only about £5 through PS Stars.

Couldn’t imagine living there. What a colossal eyesore.

I’d quite like another female protagonist. Love Eternal Punishment’s vibe with Maya being an adult female protagonist and the other party members all being adults. I’m pretty sure from this article, you haven’t played Eternal Punishment!

@-Sigma- I guess there’s not really an equivalent UK wise. Maybe if EA brought back Fight Night, similar starvation of a good franchise.

@Kingy You’re drawing parallels between fictionalised child abuse and the existence of transgender people.

It’s a slam dunk. The market isn’t dead, it’s just totally shrunk and incredibly unwelcoming to newcomers. This is a good game though, my gripes can easily be sorted with balance patches as the core game is solid.

Right say it with me, UPSKIRTING IS A CRIME. All these incels that think the East is a wonderful Nirvana of anti-woke, why don’t they ask why all cameras in Japan are required to make a loud shutter noise? Allowing you to perv on fictional children with zero consequences is just mad, this being defended while Pixar censoring their new show for depicting a transgender person is welcomed, is insane.

Crazy that College Football’s the highest selling sports game ever. I know it’s the US but there’ve been so many sports games over the years that it’s a really big deal to set that record.

Good luck with that!

There is no way this will hold true. When any character opens their mouth the games drop from a 7 to a 1.

She’s a good actress. The Naughty Dog thing of the same actors being across movies, TV and games makes it feel a bit cliquey though.

@lazarus11 Hahaha the bit in the Day Today where Coogan’s huffing helium to mock the Gerry Adams voice ban too. The squeaky voice talking about the will of the Irish people 😂

@Apollo2212 Any time Ireland is mentioned in any context my mind goes to that It spin off show Welcome To Derry and the guy on Twitter who mocked up a poster saying ‘CLOYNE: CHAPTER TOY’